Millie @Atatra@computerfairi.es
gay trans girl, 26, from unfortunate isles of britain. Fan of giant robots, sci fi and science fantasy, and girls. known accomplice and partner of the synth system, icon by mavica
occasionally nsfw, always cw'd
If you've been blocked by me and don't know why, it's likely you or an account you have boosted posts nude men, cw'd or not, or that you posted "ai" generated images, which will result in an instant and permanent block
I am prone to bouts of grumpiness and bad moods due to chronic pain
Joined Feb 2020
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bad advice reaffirms the parent/child power dynamic.
if your child has a problem, and you give them GOOD advice, they might get better at solving their own problems. then, they'd have fewer problems for you to cluck over and be disappointed by.
if you give them BAD advice, they have more problems and less idea what to do about any of them, so they 'need advice' again (whether they ask for it or not), and you have more opportunities to be superior.
of course you can only get away with telling your child to do exactly the wrong thing so often. the best bad advice is merely useless, impossible to follow, or causes your child to doubt themself.
and always remember: if your advice doesn't work, it's because your child applied it incorrectly. that's the whole point of giving bad advice!
@lion i would order that in a heartbeat, it sounds great
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my favorite kind of AI/LLM criticism media is when the person begins with a huge hedge like "I'm not an AI hater. *of course* AI is a useful technology and it will doubtlessly have transformative effects on the way we work" and then they spend the next 8k words/45 minutes showing how AI isn't actually useful and won't actually transform the way we work. it's like... it's okay to just say that AI sucks
@YKantRachelRead unfortunately i live in a house with like 10 people, and my dad stopped masking within 3 months of covid 19 hitting the uk, and he just started a new job in a school. if he brings something home it will mean isolating in my wife and i's bedroom and hoping it doesn't kill any of my family.
@YKantRachelRead god this is just activating that same anxiety I had when COVID was first being reported on, already looking at stocking up on more ffp3 masks just in case
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seems like i've been stuck on seafile 9 since who knows when and now they're up to version 14 and docker is a requirement. looks like upgrading / migrating will be a pain and not worth it.
nextcloud looks to do everything i want (i remember only giving up on it in favour of seafile becaue of how slow it ran on my 4th gen i5 server a decade ago) but i'm not keen on how bloated and ai-happy it looks today.
what other self-hosted file/docs cloud are people using today?
@memoriesin8bit I'm glad, I'm eagerly awaiting my steam controller exactly so I can help people get an idea of what is possible with this thing, I'm really hoping we get a multi OS desktop driver for it sooner or later. at the very least, valve doesn't seem likely to try and stop people from doing so
@memoriesin8bit I think the right driver could probably translate most of the inputs on the steam controller and pass them to xinput or direct input, but you'd still be left without the gyro or track pads, albeit I think the track pads would still work fine as mice
@memoriesin8bit yep, that's the big issue. valve was able to roll their own driver to seamlessly handle what is basically two mice strapped to a gamepad with three joysticks in software, and that driver is steaminput and also in the Linux kernel due to valves work with open source, but It would take Microsoft modifying xinput to specifically support a competing company's hardware for it to just work on any device
@memoriesin8bit it's not a functional driver yet as is, but it comes down to the fact that xinput just can't support the steam controller without stripping it down to only the inputs also found on an Xbox controller working. sdl already allows devices to read all the inputs of a steam controller, it's just that there's no equivalent of xinput yet that has done the work to support more types of controls as a basic desktop driver. it is fully functional under Linux however due to valves drivers
@memoriesin8bit there's already work to fully support the new steam controller under SDL, which is looking like it should be an easy slot in alternative to xinput as a driver
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I think there should be adult classes for learning things you wouldn't have for not having grown up as a girl.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073
In case none of the other dozens upon dozens of reasons to quit Chrome and quit Google before were enough.
Millie
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Listen to me.
Install Firefox from this link: https://www.firefox.com/en-CA/
Install the uBlock Origin addon from this link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
That's it. There's more you can do, but spend a few days with a proper web browser and a real ad blocker and you'll get it.
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There is no Notepad++ for any Mac, but a vibe-coded port and its sloperator "author" want you to believe otherwise.
Ars Technica, "'Notepad++ for Mac' release is disavowed by the creator of the original": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/unofficial-vibe-coded-notepad-for-mac-draws-objections-from-original-author/
Millie
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bring back wuhu island
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I hate zionists so much. Having cultural memory of being displaced, ethnically cleansed, and being the victims of genocide and then doing that to someone else? It requires virulent, dehumanizing racism, disgusting hypocrisy, shocking entitlement, and deep and contemptible cruelty. "Liberal" zionists are just as guilty for trying to legitimize their supremacist ideology and settler-colonial project. From the river to the sea, gey kacken afenyam.
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food, recipe request
@viscountexx I generally love good food recipes, this one looks great if mushrooms are liked https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/creamy-mushroom-soup
Millie
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the funniest honeypot is happening on bsky right now
gay trans girl, 26, from unfortunate isles of britain. Fan of giant robots, sci fi and science fantasy, and girls. known accomplice and partner of the synth system, icon by mavica
occasionally nsfw, always cw'd
If you've been blocked by me and don't know why, it's likely you or an account you have boosted posts nude men, cw'd or not, or that you posted "ai" generated images, which will result in an instant and permanent block
I am prone to bouts of grumpiness and bad moods due to chronic pain
Joined Feb 2020
